Clement H. Stevens

Clement Hoffman Stevens (14 August 1821-25 July 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Clement H. Stevens was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1821, but his family moved to Florida when he was young and then to Pendleton, South Carolina in 1836. Stevens married a sister of his cousins Barnard E. Bee and Hamilton P. Bee, and he worked as a bank cashier in Charleston and a railroad company member before becoming a colonel in the South Carolina militia. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, he sided with the Confederate States of America, and he was wounded at Bull Run, during which his cousin Barnard was killed. He later fought in South Carolina and Mississippi, being wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. On 20 July 1864, Stevens was shot in the head while commanding his brigade of William H.T. Walker's division at Peachtree Creek in Georgia, and he died five days later; Walker was killed on 22 July.